As an unemployed immigrant who had been living in Finland for less than three years, I was eligible for integration training. For me this meant a full-time, five-month Finnish course, which I began during the second week of January. Unlike the first language-culture courses that I participated in during my first summer in Finland, the …
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Language-Culture Course: Week 3
On Saturday my dad came to visit me since he was working near Amsterdam the week prior. It was the perfect trip to split up 6 months of being away from home. Fortunately, the program was set up to accommodate guests. While I was in class, he did his own thing- walking around the city, …
Language-Culture Course: Week 2
The second week of the language-culture course lived up to the first. Back in 2016 I studied abroad in Madrid, Spain for a semester. While the experience was amazing, I didn’t learn as much Spanish as I could have because I was too scared to speak the language, of messing up and being judged. I …
Language-Culture Course: Week 1
As part of the Fulbright grant, I get to attend a language-culture course in Finland the summer before starting the master’s program. I came to Finland only knowing the basics of the language such as hi (moi), thank you (kiitos), and excuse me (anteeksi). My plan was to learn a little more before arriving, but …
Fulbright Adventures in Finland 